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This video postcard documents the wild side of Japanese businessmen. Often caricatured as boring, the usually reserved bankers of Japan throw off their conservatism at night and transform into partying thrill-seekers, determined to live out their fantasies- however extreme. Join Mark Simkin in discovering how looks really can be deceiving!
The annual gathering of truckers in Kanazawa is the temple of Bling on wheels. Drivers in love with their trucks show off the machines they spend fortunes adorning.
Most travellers to Tokyo would be oblivious to the years of conflict surrounding Narita International Airport. But for the local farmers the battle to save their land from becoming a runway is still going on.
Robots have become part of daily life in Japan and now they look to be the solution to a national problem. Armies of these metal creatures are being developed to provide care for the elderly.
Soichiro Fukutake is heir to a publishing and education conglomerate. He's set up museums and art installations all around the island of Naoshima to show off his multi-million dollar collection But this is much more than a rich man's plaything.
Japanese society is being shaken to the core by proposals of radical reforms in the legal system. Until now, the authority of judges has gone unchallenged but this is due to change.
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56-year-old Naoki once had it all, living good-life when Japan's economy was at it's height. But after the bubble burst, he lost everything. Then he met Yoshie. This documentary tells an unusual love story of survival in the world's second richest economy.
Since Japan's rulers outlawed Christianity in the sixteenth century, believers have hidden their faith. But what began as Christianity has evolved into something quite different.
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